I really just want to be a scholar

Chapter 834 The physicists most likely to create this great history are the two of them

When the eyes of countless people were attracted by the so-called CERN comment incident, Faltings, who had just returned to work after spending a leisure vacation in his hometown in Germany at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in the United States, was reading the article by the editor-in-chief Papers delivered by Hank Andrew himself.

It has been nearly seven hours since Faltins saw the present in the morning, and he barely finished watching it for the first time.

For a major paper like this that involves the millennium problem, if I really want to give a serious opinion, it will take at least a week or so to read it over and over again.

Faltings rubbed his sore forehead.

These two young mathematicians of the Xia Kingdom are too accomplished in nonlinear partial differential equations. Faltins is not particularly good at this direction. The astonishing mathematical talent and the most moving mathematical scenery drawn together made a pure mathematician like him mesmerized and unable to stop.

Time passed very quickly in concentration, and when it was the usual break for afternoon tea, Hank Andrew came over and invited him to drink coffee at the coffee corner.

Faltins just wanted to change his mind, so he was invited to go.

At the coffee corner, old friends such as Professor Edward Witten, Professor Fefferman, Professor Deligne, and Professor Elon Linden-Strauss were gathering together to drink coffee and chat.

Not only them, the coffee corner that can seat dozens of people is basically full of people.

Many sparks of thinking that shine in the mathematics world actually collide in such a relaxed and leisurely chat atmosphere, which is also the unique cultural atmosphere of Princeton and other top universities in the West.

Seeing Faltings coming, Professor Witten said with a smile: "Faltings, didn't you just come back from your long vacation yesterday? Why do you still look tired?"

Professor Deligne looked at Faltings' tired and excited look, and pretended to guess: "I think Faltings must have read the paper "The Proof of the Mass Gap Problem of the Yang-Mills Equation." and the Mathematical Interpretation of the Standard Model of Particle Physics". Do you think I am right?"

Professor Linden-Strauss said with a smile: "There is no need to guess at all. Everyone here, if you haven't read this paper in the past two days, please raise your hand."

Sure enough, no one raised their hands.

Everyone burst out laughing.

"It is indeed a very good paper." Professor Fefferman said: "I have been reading it carefully, because I am worried that when students ask questions about this paper, I will not be able to answer it, and then I will lose face."

Professor Deligne smiled and said: "I think there is a saying on the Internet that is right. This paper is too difficult, and it is normal to not understand it. Even Professor Lions, who has been recognized as a master of partial differential equation theory in the past 20 years, is right. It is very difficult to read, let alone those of us who are not "laymen" who specialize in this direction. I am really curious how they can master several directions at the same time. They have studied the pure number (number theory) direction to the extreme , and now even the direction of partial differential equations is unmatched.”

Professor Linden Strauss shrugged his shoulders and said: "It is not surprising what kind of geniuses are born in mathematics. What I am more interested in is when they will hold an academic report conference open to the world. Such a millennium mathematics The problem has been completely overcome again, should we hold public academic reports like the original Riemann conjecture and NS equation?"

Professor Fefferman said with a smile: "They have to hold it if they don't hold it, and they don't give detailed explanations. 99.99% of mathematicians can't understand this paper. I heard that this paper was submitted to your "Annual of Mathematics"? Are you going to find it? What experts to judge?"

The last words were obviously addressed to Faltings and Hank Andrew.

Hank Andrew said bitterly: "The difficulty of this paper is too high, and it is not a purely mathematical paper. It involves many advanced theories of particle physics. Except for Professor Witten, I really can't think of any Mathematicians can be the reviewers of this paper. It can’t be like the “Physical Review Letters”, where the mathematics part is reviewed by mathematicians, and the physics part is reviewed by physicists, right?”

Everyone laughed again.At the beginning, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun co-authored the paper "Study on Large-scale Circulation Shape and Kinetic Energy Change Characteristics Using NS Equation", because the advanced mathematical operation process accounted for nearly one-third of the paper, but looking at the entire physics community No one could understand the mathematical process in it. The "Physical Review Letters" that received the manuscript had no choice but to divide the paper into two parts, and found Professor Srinivasan, a master of fluid mechanics, and Professor Tao from the University of California. Responsible for the review of the physics and mathematics sections.

This matter has been well-known throughout the physics and mathematics circles, so Hank Andrew made fun of it.

Faltings had a rare smile on his ancient face: "This physics part only accounts for less than [-]%, and it is a reference to the conclusion, which will not affect the core mathematics part of the paper. I I don't think it is necessary to find a physicist to review. As for the selection of review experts, I think it is enough to give IMU a headache. Such a significant and important paper is related to the fields of mathematics and physics. Ten experts came to review together. Professor Witten will definitely be one of them. You are a big expert in supersymmetric gauge field theory and particle physics theory."

Edward Witten said with a smile: "It is my honor to be a judge of this great paper. However, the [-]% of the physical content in the paper has caused considerable controversy."

Professor Linden-Strauss nodded and said: "Yes, I heard that even CERN has raised objections to this part of the content. But I think it is more likely to be a rumor. The European academic circle where CERN is located is currently concerned about Qin Ke and Ning Qing. Yun still has a good impression of them. The two of them solved a life-and-death crisis for the European aviation industry last month, preventing countless passengers from being threatened by extreme airflow disasters at high altitudes. The public has a very good impression of them. Even if CERN has any different views, at most they will only communicate in private through emails, and will not cause such a publicity.”

A voice with a thick nasal voice came from the table next to it: "CERN really won't do such a stupid thing. What Academician Qin and Academician Ning put forward in their paper is just a hypothesis, and it is a physical hypothesis based on mathematical theory. This Whether a hypothesis can become a reality needs to be verified by experimental physics. It is a very low-level approach to criticize a hypothesis without any experimental verification. CERN obviously will not make such a mistake."

Everyone followed their reputation and saw that the speaker was Professor Duncan Haldane from the Department of Physics at Princeton. He is a great expert in physics, especially in particle physics. He has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics. Is a tenured professor at Princeton.

This big cow is also currently working in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and he and Faltings and others are acquaintances and colleagues who bow their heads but don't look up.

Everyone invited him to come and chat with him.

Professor Duncan Haldane was also polite. After sitting down, he said: "I can't understand their papers, but I am very interested in the hypotheses they put forward. A paper on the exact mass of the W boson, if their calculation results are verified..."

Professor Linden Strauss couldn't help asking: "If it is verified?"

"Then the hypothesis they put forward is very likely to be true, and the mystery of dark matter will be unveiled. If the current experiment cannot be verified, it may only be limited by the current experimental conditions. Just like Adams theory' can calculate and predict eight kinds of elementary particles, with the advancement of science and technology, all of them have been verified in the end."

Professor Duncan Haldane said with a sigh: "I personally hope that their hypothesis is true, because once this hypothesis is verified, it will really open the door to new physics, and we will know what the origin of the universe is. "

Except for Edward Witten, everyone was not good at physics, so they all listened attentively.

Edward Witten also nodded in approval: "I agree with Professor Haldane's point of view. I have been studying this paper repeatedly since yesterday. I think its greatest significance lies in reinterpreting the standard model of particle physics with mathematics. , and pointed out the direction of a new physics, which gave me a lot of inspiration, such as the 'superneutron' and 'supergraviton' I have been studying, they are likely to be related to dark matter, I plan to contact them Let's see if we can work together in this direction."

"In addition," he looked at Professor Duncan Haldane, and continued: "Professor Haldane, I suggest that you can follow their papers for in-depth research, such as studying whether leptons and quarks are the same You are better than me at this aspect. Of course, what is most likely to be solved in the short term should be the theoretical unification of the strong interaction force and the electromagnetic force. This will be the follow-up In addition to the unification of weak electricity, the most important "unification". The ultimate goal of physical unification will also add an extremely important puzzle."

Professor Duncan Haldane shook his head and said: "The direction of 'strong unification' is indeed very attractive, but I can't keep up with my mathematics level, and I don't have the confidence to research it. This arduous task should be handed over to those two young Xia Guoda Scientists."

Speaking of this, he was a little relieved, a little envious, and a little sighed: "Probably in our lifetime, we can see the great day when the Holy Grail of 'Physical Unification' is held high. And it is most likely to create this The physicists of great history should be the two of them.”

Professor Edward Witten smiled and said: "It is true that CERN has restarted the Large Hadron Collider experiment. It is said that this time the Large Hadron Collider has been upgraded specifically for the accurate mass measurement of the W boson. In the middle of next month, the conclusions in this paper will be verified. I completely believe in the mathematical level of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun. At least in the calculation of the exact mass of the W boson There will be no problem."

He threw a newspaper on the table to the ground and snorted: "So such a fabricated report will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history next month."

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The influence of CERN is terrifying, so the controversy between CERN and Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's papers has caused a huge war of words, and all major forums on the Internet are full of quarrels.

Ning Qingyun also felt tremendous pressure.

Most of her knowledge in particle physics was taught by Qin Ke based on "thinking resonance", and the inferences in these papers are also the conjectures that the two of them came up with in their daily research. This time, the mass gap was solved. After asking the question, many of the questions that the two of them had thought about and discussed before were easily solved, and Ning Qingyun wrote it down. He didn't expect that the follow-up part he added would cause such a big controversy, and he was a little nervous and anxious.

After Qin Ke woke up, he had finished reading what Ning Qingyun had completed.His physics level has reached the master level, and he has absorbed and digested the theoretical knowledge related to particle physics in advance. Now when it comes to the level of particle physics, he will never be inferior to any physics professor in the world.

Regarding Ning Qingyun's anxiety, Qin Ke just smiled and gently rubbed the girl's hair: "My wife, the part you completed is completely fine. If you insist on saying that there is something wrong with the last part of the paper, it will be abbreviated." point, especially the hypothesis part. But I agree with your brevity, this is a mathematics paper, not a physics paper, otherwise if you want to write in detail, you can add at least 150 pages of content, then it will really be half mathematics and half physics. Let the reviewing mathematicians hit the wall in pain."

Ning Qingyun had an almost blind trust in Qin Ke, and when he heard that he affirmed what he had completed, his anxiety was quickly relieved.

She asked curiously, "How do you think it should be supplemented in detail?"

"For example, using the conclusions in our paper, we will delve deeper into the mass difference and reasons for leptons and quarks, and see if we can find a theory that unifies the two; another example is to combine the supersymmetric gauge field theory to deduce and calculate the 'superneutral' and the specific properties and quality of the 'supergraviton'. In addition, we can also try to unify the theory of the strong interaction force and the electromagnetic force. However, these tasks are very heavy, and if we really need to study them in depth, it will take us a year or two. Time may not be able to produce results. I would suggest looking for Professor Witten, he is a big expert in this area, and we can save a lot of time by cooperating with him."

Qin Ke still felt sorry for his wife. It would be exhausting to study these advanced particle physics theories in depth.In particular, Xia Guo was too far behind in particle physics, and there was no large-scale particle collider. The two wanted to conduct theoretical research in this area in Xia Guo, but they could only stay in theory and could not verify it.If the well-known Professor Witten is brought in for cooperation, it is possible to get experimental verification due to the old professor's deep connection in the world, especially with CERN in Europe.

While the two were talking, Uncle Yang Chengke personally called and asked about CERN.

Qin Ke said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter whether CERN said it or not, it doesn't affect us. Our paper mainly solves the problem of mass gap and reinterprets the standard model of particle physics in mathematical language. The latter part is just icing on the cake That's all. CERN really wants to do experiments to verify, that would be great."

Uncle Yang felt relieved immediately. In fact, this matter has attracted great attention at the national level. Hearing Qin Ke's confident reply at this time, Uncle Yang felt that he could confess to his superiors.

"Don't work too hard, you two, it's almost Spring Festival, pay attention to rest. Especially Xiao Ning."

"Thank you, Uncle Yang. We plan not to go back to the capital, and go directly to Yuanzhou for a vacation."

Qin Ke really wants to take a vacation. After studying the Yang-Mills equation for a year and a half, he finally got it done. The next particle physics is not in a hurry to study further. He is currently only interested in mathematics. Hodge guessed that the latter had the S-level knowledge of the system in his hands, and he was even more confident.

In comparison, he is more concerned about the progress of the seawater desalination project in Yuanzhou, which is related to the future response to the "world catastrophe".

This time I went back to Yuanzhou for vacation, so I went to the research center to see the latest progress on the spot, to see if we can make a technological breakthrough within this year, and initially solve the fresh water crisis in the future of mankind.

(End of this chapter)